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He was allowed to continue on his way after he showed his receipt for the duds and the cards with which he purchased them.

When Palmer returned to the store the next day to complain, a Macy’s manager blamed it on the cops and said officers frequently come into the store to monitor surveillance videos without permission, according to Palmer.

Two black Barneys customers said this week they were detained by police after making expensive purchases, while last week actor Robert Brown said he was paraded through Macy’s Herald Square store in handcuffs and detained for an hour after being racially profiled and accused of using a stolen credit card to buy his mother a $1,350 watch.

Robert Brown with Sean Connery who he starred with in the movie, Finding Forrester. Brown is suing Macy's for racial profiling

Target: World famous male model Tyson Beckford said that even he is racially profiled when he goes into stores like Barney's and elsewhere

Brown, one of the stars of HBO show Treme, was released after being in cuffs for about 45 minutes without any charges

Brown, one of the stars of HBO show Treme, was released after being in cuffs for about 45 minutes without any charges.

He’s suing the store and the NYPD, charging cops racially profiled him and violated his constitutional rights.

Fashion megastar Tyson Beckford, 42, told PIX11 on Thursday that he frequently gets judged on the color of his skin in Barney's and other places.

'I
might have the most recognizable face in the world. I still get
followed all the time, any time I go to a store,' Beckford said outside
Barney's.

Trayon
Christian, 19, is suing Barneys, saying he was accosted by undercover NYPD
officers after using his debit card to buy a $349 Ferragamo belt in
April.

Kayla Phillips, 21,
said she was surrounded and interrogated by police after purchasing a
$2,500 handbag from Barneys in February.

'Love these shoes ... but having dark skin, my hard earned money may not be enough to allow the purchase at this establishment,’ Facebook user Amelia Rios Alex wrote on the page, which features glitzy photos of shoes, perfume, jewelry and apparel.

Anger: Furious Facebook users attacked Barneys' website over what they call 'modern racism', including the likes of rapper, Jay Z

Barneys' menswear ad was bombarded with angry comments

An ad for a John Varvatos suit with the tagline, Modern Monochrome, attracted 72 people to vent about the profiling scandal.

‘Modern racism,' said John Renaud.

‘Monochrome is right. Whites only’, according to David Nieves.

‘Will I get arrested if I buy this?’ asked Ramona Morgan.

‘Do handcuffs [come] with this or are they sold separately?’ said Facebook user Glenny Lennox.

'In major cities like New York, blacks
and Latinos not only worry about being “stopped-and-frisked” by police,
but they also fear the embarrassment of being “shopped-and-frisked” in
retail stores,' he said in an opinion piece for the New York Daily News.

'Perhaps
all retailers need a friendly reminder of the immense buying power of
blacks and minorities. We will definitely remember those who welcome us
and those who would rather profile us, and we will speak loudly with our
dollars — bottom line.'

we
ever naively believe that our work is done?' Sharpton wrote.

Time for action:The Rev. Al Sharpton has condemned 'shop and frisk' at Manhattan stores and called for a boycott of Barneys

Sharpton said it was a 'travesty' that police and retailers interrogate black people who buy expensive items.

'Barneys,
a high-end retailer with stores in major cities, must answer for this
pattern of biased behavior, as must the NYPD,' he wrote.

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'Our
National Action Network (NAN) Brooklyn chapter President Kirsten John
Foy said it best when he called Barneys’ behavior schizophrenic. On the
one hand, they want to expand their brand to the urban market, but then
they turn around and see us as suspects rather than prospects.

'Barneys
and other retailers that openly discriminate against us must be held
accountable. Simply apologizing isn’t enough; we need to see a plan of
action as to how they are going to rectify their ways.'

Accountability: Barney's is under investigation and says that if any racial profiling behavior is discovered they will fire the individuals involved

Sharpton has demanded
a meeting with Barneys CEO, Mark Lee, and is 'currently mobilizing
activists for peaceful direct-action against the store and the NYPD.'

Earlier this week, Lee said the company had retained a civil rights expert to help review its procedures and offered his 'sincere regret and deepest apologies'.

'Barneys
New York has zero tolerance for any form of discrimination and we stand
by our long history in support of all human rights,' Barneys said in a
statement.